Cable or Wireless?

Zac · **Posted:** August 12th, 2007, 11:16 am

What do you use? I use wireless from my router.

Adbot · **Posted:** August 12th, 2007, 11:16 am

Evelyn · **Posted:** August 12th, 2007, 11:18 am

Wireless, because my computer is ~50m away from the router.

MattVortex · **Posted:** August 12th, 2007, 11:42 am

Yeah, I have a wireless router, which my Mac and PC connect to, but my Linux server is connected via wired Ethernet - it never moves, and is only 2m away from the router.

Gzpro · **Posted:** August 13th, 2007, 11:58 am

Wireless is the future but at the moment cable is more reliable and works better; I use wireless

Ryan · **Posted:** August 13th, 2007, 12:18 pm

I use a Belkin wireless router (which is why my internet connection it rubbish

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MattVortex · **Posted:** August 13th, 2007, 1:04 pm

gzpro wrote:

Wireless is the future but at the moment cable is more reliable and works better; I use wireless

Depends what for. I have found Wireless LAN to be very reliable (well, MY wireless LAN. the school one is terrible), although Wireless mice and keyboards to be rather unreliable - it's just different technologies.

I'm really looking forward to UWB - Ultra wideband wireless. 2gigabit wifi...

Adbot · **Posted:** August 13th, 2007, 1:04 pm

Anubis · **Posted:** August 13th, 2007, 3:19 pm

Wireless, with a main router on the family comp.
It's hard sharing the connection with 3 people. >.<

Mikhail · **Posted:** August 13th, 2007, 6:50 pm

Wireless, Linksys routers pwn.

jrdgames · **Posted:** August 13th, 2007, 7:02 pm

I use a wired router because its more convenient for my 4 port linksys router to connect to the internet and then I have a 24 port switch/hub that will connect all the rooms in the house to the network. Currently we don't have any laptops so we don't need a wireless router right now. right now we only have 5 computers on the network though with another ready and another that just needs some more work.

Gzpro · **Posted:** August 15th, 2007, 2:00 pm

Matthew wrote:

gzpro wrote:

Wireless is the future but at the moment cable is more reliable and works better; I use wireless

Depends what for. I have found Wireless LAN to be very reliable (well, MY wireless LAN. the school one is terrible), although Wireless mice and keyboards to be rather unreliable - it's just different technologies.

I'm really looking forward to UWB - Ultra wideband wireless. 2gigabit wifi...

Yeah UWB would be nice but who has speeds of 2 gigabits ...... Not to many people

MattVortex · **Posted:** August 15th, 2007, 2:19 pm

gzpro wrote:

Matthew wrote:

gzpro wrote:

Wireless is the future but at the moment cable is more reliable and works better; I use wireless

Depends what for. I have found Wireless LAN to be very reliable (well, MY wireless LAN. the school one is terrible), although Wireless mice and keyboards to be rather unreliable - it's just different technologies.

I'm really looking forward to UWB - Ultra wideband wireless. 2gigabit wifi...

Yeah UWB would be nice but who has speeds of 2 gigabits ...... Not to many people

Well I do a lot of file transferring and stuff across my network, so 2gigabit wifi accross my home would be useful.

Josh · **Posted:** August 15th, 2007, 3:02 pm

Clearwire. Blecch

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

Wireless right now, hardly a problem to be found. Occasionally, I lose a signal for no reason at all, but that is a rare anomaly.

mcnabb921 · **Posted:** August 15th, 2007, 7:26 pm

Cable, I like the reliability and the fact that I don't have to meddle with any form of port forwarding to get my games to run properly. I used to use wireless but now I'm on cable and one of the things I miss about my router is its status as a hardware firewall and the security that entails. On the upside I get a nice big 1.6 meg logfile (growing every day) from windows firewall showing all the attacks its blocked. Might just be me, but I like reading my firewall logfiles...